Just one month in Palau, Herbert Galiza, left, joined the 2013 Palau Blitz Chess Championship and lost all of his 10 games played. More losses to come as other good chess players will be playing him in the penultimate and final round. He was swept by Roberto Hernandez, right, and by the other top 4 seeds. A of couple of wins might be achieve against 3 weaker players. GOOD LUCK, HERBERT!
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
TOP 4 IN THE STANDINGS
TITO Cabunagan, Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr., Roberto Hernandez and Jose Celiz are now leading the 2013 Palau Blitz Chess Championship after the completion of games on Sunday, June 02 at Bethlehem Park.
Tito now has a 14-5-0 win-loss-draw record while Cyril has 14-6-0, Roberto (13-6-0) and Jose (10-3-1). Nilo de Jesus is in distant 5th at 8-9-1 followed by Dennis Gonzales, who has played 7 games so far at 4-2-1.
Jeff Balbalosa had an almost even day as he scored 4.5 points in 10 games. He split his games with Hernandez, Montel, Jr. and de Jesus. He was swept by Tito and won over Jose once and drew his 2nd game.
Paquito Suringa, Jr. and newcomer John Joseph Fabiola didn’t play a single game and shared the 8th spot with identical 2-6-0 slate, the same score of Remrel Dizon, who was swept by Roberto.
Jose swept Roberto but was swept in return by his nemesis, Tito. Cyril and Dennis swept Roberto and Gene Pastrana respectively.
Newcomer Herbert Galiza, an employee at P. I. E Printing, got his baptism of fire and lost all of his 10 games to frontrunners Tito, Cyril, Roberto, Jose and Nilo. He said to Roberto that he didn’t expect that Palau players are that good. He was informed that Palau players are now participating in Oceania Zonal Chess Championships and World Chess Olympiads.
He replaced the spot of Manuel Mahor, Jr. when his brother Pons confirmed that Manuel (aka Jun) is too busy to participate. The other 4 players who haven’t played a game yet are Gonzalo Escapatoria, Glen Navarosa, Mohammad Manik Hossain and Rafael Paloma.
If they wish to finish the tourney, they must play at least 17 games on the penultimate round on June 09 and another 17 games on final round on June 16.
THE RESULTS OF THE 2013 PALAU RAPID CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP WAS SUBMITTED TO WORLD CHESS FEDERATION (FIDE) BY PALAU’S RATING OFFICER JAMIE KENMURE.
14 chess players have been added to the list of Palau chess players and got their FIDE I. D. as follows:
1. Ma. Florida Hernandez (16600509) 2. Ronel Gutierrez (16600525) Rapid rating – 1260 3. Rafael Paloma (16600592) Rapid rating -1436 4. Lilibeth Cabunagan (16600487) 5. Gladys Paloma (16600495) 6. Leizl Michael (16600479) 7. Elizalde Madrinan (16600223) Rapid rating – 1326 8. Cyrelle Ann Montel (16600517) Rapid rating -1450 9. Glen Navarosa (16600533) Rapid rating-1353 10. Rey Alenain (16600541) Rapid rating – 1291 11. Francis Temaungil (16600606) Rapid rating – 1194 12. Michael Jordan Ngiratechekii (16600584) Rapid rating – 1154 13. Eric Ksau Whipps (16600550) Rapid rating– 1514 14. Eugene Labarda (16600576) Rapid rating – 1448 15. Remrel Dizon (16600568) Rapid rating – 1541.
STANDARD AND RAPID RATINGS OF PALAU’S TOP CHESS PLAYERS:
1. Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr. (Std. 1914 Rpd. 1920) 2. Roberto Hernandez (1850 1858) 3. Tito Cabunagan (1842 1883) 4. Paquito Suringa, Jr. (1717 1763) 5. Jose Celiz (1791 1715) 6. CM Bernardo Garcia (Std. 1722) 7. Eugenio Pastrana (1702 1681) 8. Angie Parrado (1673 1689) 9. Dennis Gonzales (1671 1700) 10. Jeffrey Balbalosa (1612 1615) 11. Mohammad Manik Hossain (1489 1595) 12. Miguel Hilario, Jr. (1550 1552) 13. Baby Edna Mission (1535 1530) 14. Nilo de Jesus (1520 1497) 15. Jaime dela Cruz (1520 1497) 16. Gonzalo Escapatoria (Std. 1599) 17. Jon Manuel Reyes (1520 1497) 18. Destiny Sisior (1490 1458) 19. Luciano Sibayan (1462 1427) 20. Elpidio Manaligod (1452 1442) 21. Angelil Sisior (1406 1397) 22. Ksau Anthony Whipps (1382 1422) 23. Dan Roldan (1370 1342) 24. Zachary Techall Whipps (1370 1371) 25. George Anzawa (Std. 1376) 26. Paz Ngiratechekii (1274 1264).
Solution to last week’s puzzle: 1. Qf6!! Bxf6 2. gxf6 Any move by black 3. Rh8 mate.
This week’s puzzle: White to move and mates in 3 (Solution next issue)
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 9 & 11
Volume 22
Issue 46
June 10, 2013
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